St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-06
SHORT SIX ETCHES.
What the Members Were Doing BE.
tween Their Mans

| There came near being q hitch in the in
! augurat1on proceedings. The simple matter
| OF securing the services of a Judge to swear
| IN the new governor had been neglected, and
1t was during the reading OF Coy. Hubbard 8
| message that the mistake was discovered
| There was some lively hustling and four or
| five Herdics were called into reouisition TO
| hunt up the badiy-needed official Judge
| Dickinson was secured just in time, after
| much trial and tribulaton. The length of
| Gov. Hubbard's message was all that saved
the convention from an awkward episode
There are number of errors in the spell-
ing or Dames in the official printed roll call of
| the house. Buffum is spelled Bufam, Dick
I mann with one n, Dornfeldt is printed Dom
| feldt, Farley is Faircy, Fathers is Flaters.
| hreis is krles, Hummer is Kummin I,um is
| Lunn, Millar is Miller, Swartwoudt is Swart-
| wandt, Trawicky is Travicky, Van der WeIde
| is closed together as one word
| Gov. McGill, while reading his message,
was several times interrupted by applause
once he halted after the applause had SUBJ
| sided, and there was an awkward pause.
| you've made me lose the place. he en-
! planned, and went ahead while the laugh went
| around.
| More than ever before it is apparent that
| reform is necessary. What is the sense in
having governors read their messages, or
having them read at all? They sbould bs
printed in pamphlet form and put in eyery-
body's stocking as Christmas gift.
Congressman Macdonald likes to be around.
He prefers the senate chamber, however, apd
spends good deal of his time there. Tt need
not surprise anybody if bill is passed to put
up one vi Inc macdonald fire escapes ON the
capitol.
1 Donnelly says the Observation-Disclosures bill ia
the nub OF all the legislation that will be EN-.
acted this W1nter-that it is the most impor.
tant of anything that is to be considered.
j. W. Reynolds, prominent attorney OF
Grant county, and Fl. G. Lillemon, of Grant
county, an active alliance man, absorbed the
messages without finching
Lum, of Grow Wing sat with his ewes
closed during goodlY part of the reading of
GOV. Hubnard's message, but it is not be-
lieved that he was asleep.
a. 5. Tallmadge drank in every word. AZ
the conclusion he showed trace of disap-
polhtment because nothing had been said
about the carnival.
The names of the members in large. hold
letters, were tackled on to the desks This
was great assistance to the eagle eye of the
speaker.
A very black colored lady in the gallery.
slttlng oifectiy over the clock. made sember
background for the white dial of the time.
piece.
Loren Fletcher (sotto voce), when McGu
read the paragraph opposing the accordance
OF railroad passes; II move to strike that
OUT
Iue new governor position on high license
seems popular with the memburs, if the vol
ume OF applause can be taken as criterion.
McGill got more applause than Hubbard
curing the reading of his message There
was none for Hubbard except at the close.
Ex-Representative Thompson, OF Fillmore
was drawn in as if by magnet He couldn't
stay away from mis- old haunts
Seats were not equal to the demand and
scores oil people were compelled to stand
during the ceremonies
l.. c. Hodgson, standing in the rear, rested
MS mead on his right hand and listened at
tentivey.
The impression is pretty general that Mark
ID. Flower wrote the McGiIl message
A man in the gallery read newspaper
during the reading of the messages.
Ex-Govs. Ramsey and Marshall occunied
seats together in the front row.
Ex-Attorney General Hahn and Loren
Fletcher were on hand.
1t is a close race between the turn-down
and staud-up collars.
Flynn CAPPED several times, but he didn't
look bored.
Lee is the only member who doesn't wear
necktie.
Donnelly was one of the closest listeners.